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Get your telescopes ready: Rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS coming closest to Earth on Friday night

From atop Maunakea on the Big Island to around the world, astronomers and citizen stargazers are eagerly awaiting the passage of the interstellar comet through our solar system.

New study: Strange interstellar object ‘Oumuamua could be hydrogen-burping comet

Researchers have speculated about what ‘Oumuamua is since the reddish cigar-shaped galactic guest was first observed nearly six years ago by the Pan-STARRS1 telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui.
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